Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space
There is No “I“ in Schlock!
The filmmaking community around the world has been hit hard by the Covid-19 Pandemic and the restrictions imposed as a result. For some, this means productions are postponed until further notice, and for others it means that they can still make films, but adhere to certain rules and restrictions that can make a production more expensive, lengthier and in general, much harder to pull off. As if making indie films wasn’t difficult enough.
For Australian filmmaker and MyIndie featured artist, David Black, this simply means looking at things from a different angle and shifting attention to a project that can be made under the current conditions, yet without increasing the level of difficulty of its execution. Melbourne, where David lives, is currently under stage 4 restrictions, of the strictest in the world at this time. Black, joined by regular collaborator, multi-skilled filmmaker, Gerardo Chierchia, decided on the approach that… when life gives you lemons, you make a schlocky sci-fi feature!
The Aussie pair are in the process of making Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space, and the schlock is strong with this one. To make it happen while under lockdown, the two used the force… of wi-fi, and reached out across the world in search of collaborating artists to join their cause.
We recently exposed some of the local collaborators who eagerly jumped on board (read HERE), now some of the international accessories to this grand schlockery have also been revealed.
Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space is a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi/horror that pays homage to cult classics from the distant past. This kind of style allows for more freedom in the filmmaking process, where almost anything goes. Some international filmmakers have jumped at the chance to be involved in such a fun project.
One such filmmaker, from all the way in Florida, United States, is Joel D. Wynkoop, The King of B-Grade Movies. Joel plays Parsons Cooper, the character from his upcoming feature The Craiglon Incident. The scene he shot for Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space will serve as a crossover between the two films.
Wynkoop: “David told me what his movie was about and asked me if I would like to shoot a scene for him… I jumped at the chance.
Years ago I wanted to cross over Lost Faith with Brainrobbers from Outer Space, it never worked out and I thought, now is my chance to do it… how cool would that be?
In a lot of my productions I have crossovers but mainly from my own movies. Now my character, Parsons, who is out to save his world and other worlds has been given super powers to battle the aliens BUT these other nasty aliens have dragged him into their world. These aliens are worse and he is badly outnumbered and has no help from anyone… The end result will be … AWESOME!!”
Another joining our ragtag group for some cinematic heroics is Texan Native-American filmmaker, Destiny Soria, who plays Destiny Tala, a Bruja from the Kickapoo Wolf Clan. Destiny is currently working on her own indie horror feature, titled Christmas Slasher and cleared some time to shoot a few scenes for Toxic Alien Zombie Babes.
Destiny: “I absolutely love making movies and being on set. I’m currently working on my feature film, Christmas Slasher, which I wrote. I will be directing and filming next year. At the moment I’m working on some scenes for Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space because I thought it was very interesting and since Covid-19 had closed all productions and put them on hold. This was amazing opportunity.”
In France, filmmaker-actress Julie Krebs shot, according to Black, “one of the funniest scenes we have to date”. The shoot took place in Strasbourg’s old town, called Petite France.
“Collaborating with Gerardo and David has been a great opportunity to create an international movie. I love the Aliens concept and David‘s humour,” said Julie.
Any international filmmakers who wish to become involved can upload their own self-shot video of their reaction to seeing a UFO, HERE. Five will be selected to be included in the film and many will be shown during the end-credits.
Black announced: “Toxic Alien Zombie Babes From Outer Space is scheduled to land sometime in November this year. We’ll announce distribution plans closer to the date, but can say that we are planning to give this film away free to any theatres and TV stations willing to run it. This has been a movie made by the people and for the people and should be made available to all that who to see it.”
This goes to show that a little ingenuity can go a long way and and by the time Black and Chierchia are done with the film, this episode in Melbourne’s history, may be remembered as “The Covid-19 Schlockdown”.
